Salesforce Commerce Cloud Technical Architect

**Please note that this job is a full-time position located in Lisbon or Porto (can be remote contractor role in the EU), but the selection process will be conducted in English.**

**_Please send over your CV in English._**

What you’ll be doing:

- Producing and owning innovative and well-engineered technical solutions to fit business requirements, following our delivery methodology, and ensuring successful delivery of the solution.
- Communicating technical architectures and designs to internal teams, including developers and testers, and being the technical leader of that product team.
- Communicating directly with the customer on all aspects of the technical design, including running design workshops, participating in architecture reviews, providing recommendations and reasons for key design decisions, and explaining complex technical designs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Communicating directly with 3rd parties to agree specifications and designs.
- Identifying impacts of a given solution/architecture and challenging business requirements or suggesting alternate solutions where necessary.
- Identifying and managing key stakeholders of the overall architecture, particularly where change is required.
- Championing, upholding, and communicating the principals of good engineering practice around software design, automation testing, DevOps principals within agile teams and with the client.
- Working collaboratively with other architects and lead developers to share knowledge and solutions.
- Estimating the design and implementation effort of large-scale and complex technical solutions and assisting in the delivery, migration, and go-live planning with the ability to highlight key risks and dependencies.
- Ownership of the technical delivery, ensuring and demonstrating the quality of the deliverable, from code quality through to performance, scalability, observability, and security of the solution.

What we want from you:

- Significant Salesforce Commerce Cloud technical design, technical architecture, and development experience.
- Experience in designing and building multi-currency, multi-language language and multi-site solutions.
- A thorough understanding of traditional and modern web technologies, including client-server architecture, distributed systems, event-driven systems, API design and front-end technologies such as Single Page Applications.
- Experience with the development lifecycle of a Salesforce Commerce Cloud solution.
- Experience of API design and implementation and working with APIs for integration to 3rd party systems.
- Experience of developing in ISML, and a working knowledge of front-end languages / frameworks (SPA, PWA, React, TypeScript, JavaScript).
- Experience of integrating between Salesforce Commerce Cloud and ERP / WMS / OMS / CRM systems outside the Salesforce domain.
- Experience working alongside 3rd party Salesforce Commerce Cloud architects.

VML is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce to create connected brands and drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Intel, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave Reports, which name WPP as a “Leader” in Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. As the world’s most advanced and largest creative company, VML’s global network is powered by 30,000 talented people across 60-plus markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.

**AT VML Commerce & Technology**:
Our commerce and technology division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.

We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co.

We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia.

Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.

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